John Donovan

John Donovan was a CIA paramilitary operations officer from 1953 to 1969, leading American special forces during the Vietnam War.

Biography
John Donovan graduated from Princeton University in New Jersey in 1953, and he was recruited into the Central Intelligence Agency shortly afterwards. Donovan was sent to Vietnam to coordinate operations against the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army, and he befriended special forces soldier Lincoln Clay while fighting alongside him in the Vietnam War in April 1966. In 1968, Donovan decided to work with Clay against the Marcano crime family in New Orleans, Louisiana, providing him with government technology and information. He left the CIA in 1969 as a result of his operations, and he would be called to testify before a senate committee in 1971.